Specification of Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff : pill and ointment for the cure of scorbutic and other disorders.

  • Hardy, Adam Hall.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Specification of Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff : pill and ointment for the cure of scorbutic and other disorders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hardy $ For doff's Compound Pill and Ointment for Scorbutic Disorders, $c. same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent. NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Adam Hall Hardy and Jacob Hardy Fordoff, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what 5 manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer¬ tained in and by the following statement (that is to say):— Our Invention, which has reference to the cure of scorbutic and other similar disorders of the human body, consists, firstly, in manufacturing from certain chemical compound preparations an improved pill, called “ Doctor 10 Hardy’s family pill of health.” And, secondly, a description of ointment called “ old Doctor Hardy’s cele¬ brated scorbutic ointment,” to be used in connection with the said pills or otherwise. But in order that this our said Invention may be fully understood and 15 readily carried into effect, we now proceed to describe in detail the ingredients and proportions or quantities employed by us in manufacturing the said pills and ointment respectively (that is to say):—For our improved pill we cause half a pound of socatrine aloes, half a pound of cape aloes, two ounces of powder jalap, three ounces of syrup of buckthorne, and half an ounce of oil of sweet 20 almonds, to be boiled together over a slow fire until the consistency thereof is fit for pills; we then add half an ounce of calomel, and cause the same to be well rubbed into the mass, which we then divide and form into five- grain pills. In the manufacture of our improved ointment the following ingredients and 25 quantities are employed, namely :—Two pounds and four ounces of lard, four ounces of white precipitate, two ounces of red precipitate, two drachms of tumeric, together with half a drachm of oil of origanum ; the whole of which are to be worked together on a slab, or by any other suitable means, for about half an hour, until fit for use. 30 Having now fully described the nature of this our said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed and carried into effect, we would have it clearly understood the we do not by any means intend to confine our¬ selves to the precise details herein-before described, as the same might be varied without departing from the general principle of this our said Invention; 35 but that which we do claim as new and of our said Invention is,— Firstly, the employment of the compound preparations or ingredients as mentioned under the first head of our Invention, in the manufacture of pills for the purpose above described.